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Roswell Park’s Team Cure Runs to Save Lives and Cure Cancer

Submitted by Katie Essner, Public Relations Professional

Thursday, January 17th, 2013, 3:45pm

Roswell Park’s Team Cure Challenge is kicking off the 2013 running season with the Shamrock Run 8K on March 2, and you’re invited to join!

Team Cure Challenge is a run/walk program where participants train and compete in local or destination races while raising critically-needed funds to support the cutting-edge research and patient care programs at Roswell Park.

Many Team Cure Challenge members run in honor of loved ones, like Ben, who ran in memory of his father who was diagnosed with Stage III prostate cancer and passed one month before Ben’s high school graduation. Through Team Cure Challenge, Ben completed the Dublin Marathon, and chronicled his journey to Ireland in the video above.

To register for the Shamrock Run or to learn more, please visit the Team Cure Challenge website.

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Jacobs and Libraries Encourage Readers to “Renew Local"

Submitted by Mike Cecchini on Thursday, January 17th, 6:39 am

Registration Renewal Envelopes Soon to be Available in all Buffalo & Erie County Libraries

Erie County, NY- Erie County Clerk Chris Jacobs and the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library System announced today that library patrons will now be able to find the signature green “Just Mail It” envelopes at their local branches while checking out the latest best-seller.

The Clerk’s Office is asking Erie County residents to “Renew Local” when renewing their auto registration in order to keep 12.7% of vehicle registration fees here in Erie County rather than sending 100% to Albany. Taxpayers should know that when they renew their registration at any of the Erie County Auto Bureaus or mail their renewal directly to the County Clerk’s Office, over $1.5 million in revenue annually stays in Erie County to support County services.

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Jacobs Will Not Release Pistol Permit Data to Buffalo News

Submitted by Mike Cecchini on Wednesday, January 16th, 6:43 pm

County Clerk Believes Matter of Public Safety

Erie County, NY- Erie County Clerk Chris Jacobs stated he will not provide to the Buffalo News the records of over 75,000 pistol permit holders in Erie County. Late last week Jacobs received a request from the Buffalo News for “all active pistol permit holders in Erie County, including but not limited to name and address.”

The Freedom of Information request came soon after a downstate paper obtained and published, in the form of an interactive Google map, all pistol permit holders in Rockland and Westchester Counties.

“I will exhaust every legal avenue available to keep the records of registered gun owners private, because I believe such disclosure could endanger the life and safety of our citizens,” said Jacobs. “As an elected official, that will always be my first priority.”

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Jacobs Alerts Motorists to Renew Local and Avoid Vehicle Registration Delays

Submitted by Mike Cecchini on Friday, January 11th, 5:54 pm

Erie County, NY- Erie County Clerk Chris Jacobs wants to make motorists aware that renewing your vehicle registration through the local Auto Bureau or utilizing the signature green-postage paid envelopes, can generate up to $1.5 million in additional revenue for the county and is done without any delays.

Recently the Department of Motor Vehicles identified a defect in registration documents supplied by their vendor. “According to the NYS DMV, this has prevented the printing of most registrations and window stickers that were ordered starting January 1, 2013,” said Jacobs. “As a result, there will be a delay in printing the registrations and stickers for motorists who ordered new, duplicate or renewal documents through Albany since January 1.”

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Jacobs Announces Clerk’s Office Processed 726 Passports in 2012

Submitted by Mike Cecchini on Friday, January 11th, 5:18 pm

Generating Over $24,000 in Revenue for Erie County

Erie County, NY – In his effort to make County government more customer-centered and entrepreneurial, Erie CountyClerk Chris Jacobs announced that his Administration processed over 700 passport applications in his first year in Office.

The Clerks’ Office was recently re-approved to be an official Passport Application Acceptance Agent of the United States Passport Service and employees were re-certified to be Passport Acceptance Agents. “This is a service we provide to the citizens of Erie County, with no additional staff, that generates revenues which we give back to Erie County,” stated Jacobs.

Erie County Clerk Chris Jacobs Welcomes Newly Naturalized Husband and Wife and their Family to Erie County.

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Community Charter School Adds Four Members to Board

Submitted by Shannon Specht on Wednesday, January 9th, 9:34 am

The COMMUNITY Charter School Board of Trustees elected four new members to three-year terms on the board as part of its “School Improvement Plan,” which called for expanding the board from five members to 11. All appointments received approval from the New York State Education Department (NYSED).

The new board members include: Kathleen E. Ballard, supervisor/executive director of Erie 1 BOCES, Robert J. Gamble, Ph.D., professor of graduate education at D'Youville College, Alan S. Hoffman, a veteran attorney, and Erin Sylvester Torcello, an associate at Bond Schoeneck & King Attorneys.

COMMUNITY Charter School is currently in the final year of a four-year charter and efforts are underway to win charter renewal from the state Board of Regents.

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The Lake Erie Seiche Disaster of 1844

Submitted by Jerry M. Malloy, The Buffalo History Gazette

Monday, December 31st, 2012, 10:24am

Tremendous Gale! Awful Destruction of Lives and Property!

October 21 & 22, 1844 Buffalo Morning Express & The Commercial Advertiser

This flood (*Seiche) occurred October 18, 1844. It was the most disastrous that has ever occurred since the city was founded. It came without warning, an avalanche of waters upon a sleeping community, many of whom were drowned and many of whom had narrow escapes from a similar fate. For several days before the occurrence of the flood a strong north- east wind had been driving the water up the lake, but on the evening of the 18th a sudden shift of the wind took place, and it blew from the opposite direction with a tremendous force never before or since known to the inhabitants of Buffalo. It brought with it immense volumes of water in a tremendous wave, which overflowed the lower districts of the city and vicinity, demolishing scores of buildings, and spreading ruin along the harbor front, playing havoc with shipping, and causing an awful destruction of human life.

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